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Our Opinion

The Huawei Honor 7X 32GB is a significantly better phone than the Huawei Honor 7C (3GB RAM, 32GB), and is also significantly better value for money. What should you buy? Go for the Huawei Honor 7X 32GB!

With a flat metal backplate, 2.5D curved glass on the front, and a display that dominates the front fascia, the Honor 7C feels sleek and premium

The lack of antenna lines, subtle Honor branding, minimal regulatory information lend a very clean and minimal look to the back panel

Build quality is top-notch too, and the phone feels solid in the hand

The rear-mounted fingerprint sensor is fast and accurate, and is ergonomically placed - it can be used for a variety of shortcuts such as taking a picture, answering calls, and sliding down the notification panel

The Honor 7C also supports face recognition, using the 8-megapixel front camera - it works quite well for the most part in good light

Decent 5.99 inch 18:9 modern, tall display - colours are vibrant and viewing angles are spot on (although outdoor visibility is average, and resolution could have been better)

Battery life is decent (though not overly impressive)- with moderate use, the phone will last the day - EMUI also has a host of battery saving features, one of which reduces the screen resolution when you're running low on power

Add to that the minimal bezel 18:9 display, and the Honor 7X is a definite looker

The metal body curves on the sides and along the edges, giving this phone a good in-hand feel

Reasonably light at 165 grams

Beautiful, large, immersive display - watching movies and games is a great experience

Viewing angles are good too, and Honor lets you tweak the colour temperature to suit your preferences

The fingerprint scanner at the back is easy to reach and quick to unlock the phone

Honor's custom EMUI skin is decent (though not the best) and has a thoughtful single-handed mode which makes the phone easier to use despite its big screen

Good, solid, peppy performance backed by the same combination of processor and RAM as the Honor 9i

Both rear and front camera clicks are good in well lit conditions - and both have bokeh mode

Decent battery life - will comfortably last the work day with moderate use

If your primary requirement is for a large, bezel-less display for reading content and watching movies, then the 7X will make a good choice

2-minute Review [Negatives]

Pretty wide which hinders one-handed use considerably

The Honor 7C runs Huawei's EMUI custom skin atop Android - although EMUI has matured over the years and is now one of the most versatile and feature-loaded skins out there, it is still cluttered in some places and laden with bloat - a multitude of Honor's applications compete with Google's own, and the phone comes with a lot of 3rd party apps pre-installed

Although performance is decent in day-to-day use, it does struggle with intensive workloads - with multiple apps open in the background, you will experience lags - other phones in this price bracket, even those with the same Snapdragon 450 (like the Redmi 5) seem to do better

Average dual camera system on the rear - there is lack of detail in the images, and low light shots are barely usable - the blur (bokeh) effect is also not the most accurate, and edge detection around the subject is average - video recording is strictly average too - the cameras on competing phones like Redmi Note 5 and Realme 1 are significantly better

The 8-megapixel front shooter is average too - it can take decent photos in good light but struggles in low light, producing noisy and murky shots

The speaker that is very shrill and tinny

No modern USB-Type C port for charging and data transfers

The smartphone also does not support quick charging, and takes more than two and a half hours to charge fully using the included charger

On the whole, potential buyers are likely to find a much better value proposition in the likes of the Oppo Realme 1 (which lacks a fingerprint sensor but offers a better-rounded package), or the Redmi Note 5 (which offers far more value for money), or the Asus Max Pro M1 (simple, stock Android UI) - the Honor 7C will also face tough competition from Honor's own 9 Lite (which has a higher-resolution display, a better set of cameras, and a sleek glass body)

Performance is good in daily use, but graphically intensive games will stutter - there are better performing phones available in this price bracket

Rear and front cameras are quite good but not the best - low lightperformance and portrait/bokeh mode are sometimes hit-and-miss

Average loudspeaker - audio from videos and music is not the best

Uses the older micro-USB port, instead of the USB-C standard

No fast charging support - will take about two and a half hours to charge fully

At this price range, the Honor 7X faces strong competition from the Xiaomi Mi A1 - while it doesn’t come with as impressive a display as the Honor 7X - it does boast a superior set of cameras, and stock Android OS (along with guaranteed Android updates in the future), which may make it an overall better choice for most users